Tracing childhood [electronic resource] : bioarchaeological investigations of early lives in antiquity / edited by Jennifer L. Thompson, Marta P. Alfonso-Durruty, and John J. Crandall ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen.

Includes index.

Introduction: Children in prehistory: now seen, now heard / Jennifer L. Thompson, John J. Crandall, and Marta P. Alfonso-Durruty -- Part I. The chosen child -- Death and the special child: three examples from the ancient midwest / Della C. Cook, Andrew R. Thompson, and Amanda A. Rollins -- Beyond victims: exploring the identity of sacrificed infants and children at La Cueva de los Muertos Chiquitos, Durango, Mexico (AD 571-1168) / John J. Crandall and Jennifer L. Thompson -- Chinchorro mortuary practices on infants: Northern Chile Archaic period (BP 7000-3600) / Vivien G. Standen, Bernardo T. Arriaza, and Calogero M. Santoro -- The "other" burials at Torre de Palma: childhood as special death in a Medieval Portuguese site / Sarah Holt, Stacey Hallman, Mary Lucas Powell, and Maia M. Langley -- Part II. The desecrated child -- The bioarchaeology of the homicide of infants and children / Simon Mays -- Sense or sensationalism? Approaches to explaining high perinatal mortality in the past / Helen F. Gilmore and Siân E. Halcrow -- A disciplined childhood in nineteenth-century new york city: a social bioarchaeology of the subadults of the Spring Street Presbyterian Church / Meredith A. B. Ellis -- Part III. The working child -- Childhood, colonialism, and nation-building: child labor in Virginia and New York / Autumn Barrett -- Little helping hands: insights from Punta Teatinos, Chile / Marta P. Alfonso-Durruty and Jennifer L. Thompson -- Children of the working class: environmental marginality and child health at Black Mesa, Arizona (AD -- 900-1150) / Debra L. Martin, Jennifer L. Thompson, and John J. Crandall -- Part IV. The cultured child -- Surviving childhood: health, identity, and personhood in the prehistoric American Southwest / Ann M. Palkovich -- Tracing Tiwanaku childhoods: a bioarchaeological study of age and social identities in Tiwanaku Society / Deborah E. Blom and Kelly J. Knudson -- Conclusion. Little bodies, big voices: the lives of children in the past / Marta P. Alfonso-Durruty, Jennifer L. Thompson, and John J. Crandall.

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